Rethink before you type | Trisha Prabhu | TEDxTeen
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Have you ever done or said something and wished you could take it ...
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Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Mile Živković "Girl, kill yourself." "Why are you still alive?" "You are so ugly." Rebecca Sedwick, an eleven-year-old girl from Florida, received those mean, hurtful, tormenting and embarrassing messages on her social media. They would ultimately lead her to jump off of her town's water tower to her death. In the fall of 2013, I would come home from school to read that story. I was stunned, shocked, and I was heart-broken. How could a girl younger than myself be pushed to take her own life? That's when I knew I had to do something to stop this from ever happening again. But the pain and the misery that Rebecca endured had already happened. The damage was done. My name is Trisha Prabhu, I'm fourte...
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Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Mile Živković "Girl, kill yourself." "Why are you still alive?" "You are so ugly." Rebecca Sedwick, an eleven-year-old girl from Florida, received those mean, hurtful, tormenting and embarrassing messages on her social media. They would ultimately lead her to jump off of her town's water tower to her death. In the fall of 2013, I would come home from school to read that story. I was stunned, shocked, and I was heart-broken. How could a girl younger than myself be pushed to take her own life? That's when I knew I had to do something to stop this from ever happening again. But the pain and the misery that Rebecca endured had already happened. The damage was done. My name is Trisha Prabhu, I'm fourte...
